The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-07
THE SNARLING NATIONS.

Russia and France Busily Engaged In Stick
Pins in the German Cuticle.
copyright. 1857 by the New York Associated Press
BERLIN Aug 6-The relations of Germany
with Russia do not improve. The press of Mos
cow and ST. Petersburg make the death of NJ
Katkoff the occasion of fresh outbursts OF hatred
toward Germany. The Politische Nachrich ten,
semi-ofical, expresses a hope that. NJ. Kaskoff
being dead, the Pan-Slavist agitation against
Germany will become less rabid, but
it admits that his school survives,
active and militant, warning Germany to take
every precaution against attack. The Kreuz Zet-
tung, the Post and other papers, in discussing
the consequences Of NJ. Katkoff's DEATH do not
conceal the sense of relief that that indefati-
gable enemy, the most potent inspirer of anti
German policy, has gone. leaving no Pan-Slavist
leader who is able to exercise the
same dangerous influences. The French
manifestations of sympathy have been treated
with silent contempt. Excepting the infamous
insinuations of a portion of the French press
that Katkoffs illness was haetened toward a
fatal termination by poison. the papers ignore
the published results of the autopsy, showing
that death was due to cancerous growths in the
stomach and lungs The French papers pub
lished bogus dispatches alleging that the
Russian editors illness arose from poison
administered along time ago by Germ an agents.
Inc tOaG TO Dlg0t expresses It's disgust as this
journalistic baseness, and says that large
number of French newspapers, in commenting
NJ. Kastkoff's death, made imputatons repre-
sentine the leaders of the German policy rs
professional prisoners and murderers. Not one
voice. I'll. the Post so, says has been raised
proteJt against the moral oepravity
their aspersions betray. This bears testimony
to the terrorism exercised by the anti German
party the extent and nature of which cannot
long be overlooked by the German governments.
The tone OF the Post only mildly indicates the
tension of the relations with France. The bitter
of popular feeling is aggravated under
fresh instances of German batting. The last
of this kind, which is especially excit-
ing anger, is the closing OF a factory
to the brothers Wessbach, and situated at En-
bermine, in the department of Moselle. The
factory was closed by order of Project Schnerb.
who played prominent part in the Schnaebls
affair The workmen were given only three
days notice of their expulsion. 1t is reported
that the delay in Prince Bismarck's departure for
Kissingen is due solely to the gravity
of the situation with France. The Chancellor is
making the Weissbach affair the subject of dip.
lomatic communications, tending to bring
French provocatons to critical stage. The
Paris adyices blaming the German govern
ment for similar action in expell-
ing French railway officials employed
at Avericourt station misrepresent the
station, live the German side OF the frontier
thus eluding social duties for personal purposes.
The authorities ordered them to reside within
their own frontier, and gave the married men
three months and the single men one month to
leave